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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5246, 14 April 1908, Page 2

Comuioroid nows will be found ou the first and fourth pages

Mr W. Young has again donated £2 for attendance pii/.nn at the District nigh School.

A meeting of members of the Waipawa Hockey Clubs is called for to morrow night.

The tender of Mrs Weedon has been accepted for tho cleaning of tho Waipawu District High School.

A meeting of tho Waipawa Dramatic O'.ub will bo held in tho Oddfellows’ Hall, at 8 o’clock, to-night.

Tho Bov (1 Frost conducts a lantern ►ervioo at Tikokino ou Thursday evening, when a number of suorod solos will be rendered.

All offertories at tho services in tho Anglican churchts in tho diocose of Waiapu, on Faster Sunday, will ho given to tho rotpoclivo vicars rt an Knut+r gift.

Friday tho 17th, Saturday tho 18th, and Monday tho 20th inst., will ho observed ns Govommont holidays. Ht. George’s Day (tho 23rd inst.) will also bo a Government holiday.

An application hnß boon filed with Mr A. Stubbs, clerk of awards, to extend tho bricklayers* award, dated Gib September, 1906, to apply to 20 parties at Napier, 11 at Masto- ton, 3G at Hustings, and 23 at Palmerston North.

According to Christchurch papers, good progress is being made with tho erection of workers’ homes at Sydenhum, and tho cottages should be ready for occupation at no distant date.

Allan’s ontertaii era und pictures appeared in tho Oddfellows’ Hall, lust night, when thoro was a good attendance. The varied programme mot with the approval of thoro present and the various performers wore frequently applauded.

Local papers record that Ashburton poultry breeders are compluining of an outbreak of a disease among thoir fowlß. The owner of one yard lost thirty fowls in a week, and other fanciers have suffered to a groat extent. The name of the disoasu is not known.

Hero is a mushroom story from a Taranaki paper:—“One of the lurgest mushrooms we have ever seen was brought to us by Mr A. J. Hoskin today. Picked near a swamp on his farm, it measured 8} inches in diameter and stood between six and seven inches above the surfaue of the grouud.” The Rev. G. Frost conducts a special lantern service in the Waipawa Methodist Church ou Good Friday eveuing, when sacred solos : “ The Holy City,’’ “Nazareth,” “Calvary,” etc., will be sung by Miss N. Mundoll, and Messrs H. Dixon, and G. W. Venables respectively. Tho slidos are photographs of tho world's famous pictures on the Passion of Christ.

A remarkable story from the West Coast backblocks has reached the ears of a Taranaki Jleralil representative through the most reliable channels. A married couple settled there in an isolated spot many years ago. Soon after their arrival there they quarrelled, and since then have lived without speaking to each other, They have reared a large family, and the ohildron, having never heard human speech till recently, have not learned to speak. Thoir plight is pitiful now when they oomo in contact with their fellow beings. The sacred ties of mates!)ip leoeived scant respoot frorr, a young fellow who was before tho Dunedin Polioe Court last week. When starving, near Nasehy, ho met a “mate” Booking work, who gave him 3s out of his slender purse, and befriended him ou a weary tramp to Milton. They got work on different farms at Balolutha, where the accused showed his gratitude by entering his mate’s hut and stealing his olothes, boots and watch, which he was wearing when arrested at Mornington. The Magistrate committed him at the Supreme Court for eontonee. By her presence of mind Mrs Frances Rao saved her child from certain death at Noithcote, Victoria, though in doing bo she was severely injured. Mrs Rue was wheeling a perambulator containing her child, and while in the act of crossing the ruilwuy lino wus struck by a truck and knocked down. The wheel passed over her right lug and left foot. Whon the truck came on to her, the mother realising her danger, and, catching up the baby, throw it clear of tho Hue just as the truck struck the perambulator. The child was uninjured. Mrs Rue wus udmittod to the hospital. It is expected that by the 16th of this month the Government Printing Office will have completed the task of printing tho main rolls for all the constituencies in tho Dominion. The work entailed has been of surprising magnitude. There are 75 constituencies and each constituency gets 1000 copies of its roll. Many tons of paper will he used in tho work, and ulx ut 35 tons of typo will he sot up in the course of the job. As it is estimated that at least 75 per cent of the electors will boon the roll when another election comes round the typo will ho kept in bulk. This will do uway largely with resetting and incidentally save enormous expense.

The other evening a local resident says tho Oarauru Mail), whoso poultry prefer tho shelter afforded by his inaerocurpa trees for roosting purposes to that contained in their properly constructed habitation, was startled at* a late hour by tho distressful cries of one of the birds; and on looking into the trees with a lantern to ascertain the cause, discovered on one of tho topmost branches a weasel ou the back of a fowl leisurely Bucking tho blood fj-om a wound inflicted at tho back of tho head. The attempt at capture’Was a failure, but a trap was set and later a weasel was caught. Whether it wus tho one in question or another it is impossible to Btate. The incident will serve to s-ttb tho question as to whether these indents will or will not climb trees.